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A couple of days after Isamu's first mission with team 7 and 8, Isamu had spent a lot of his time with the two teams, just hanging out and having fun with them. He have been training his sensory ability when he was not with the others, he followed an old clan tome, he had been told his father kept somewhere at his old house and at the time he died, Hiashi Hyuga gave the tome to Isamu and told him it was his clans legacy, it contained many of his clans hidden jutsu's, limited details on an Kekkei Genkai but it was more like myths and stories than facts, nothing on how to unlock it or if it even existed, there were even something about a summoning contract in the tome, but who or what the summoning are, is not mentioned, either was how to form the contract.
His goal was to heighten his sensory ability that would allow him to "see with his soul" or at least that's what it said. He had not made any progress what so ever, the tome only described jutsu's in clues and riddles, making it hard to understand its meaning, one line that bothered him the most was one line in the tome "one must lose for one to gain" he could not see how losing something would help him learn to heighten his senses.
He had been spending his morning studying the tome for new and better jutsu's, he found quite a few he wanted to try out, but that had to wait. He had promised to train with Naruto at noon. He took his coat with the most basic gear, in case he might need it.
As he left his room, he met Hinata that had just returned from the village "oh good morning Hinata-sama, have you just returned from your trip to the village?" she returned the gesture "Good morning Isamu, yes I just got back home, where are you going?" at the moment he was about to answer an idea popped into his head "I'm on my way out to train with Naruto, why don't you come with me? I'm sure Naruto would love it." Hinata's face turned red "no, I would only be in the way of your training, and…" Isamu grab her hand and dragged her with him "It will be fun and it's not like you don't need any training, maybe you learn something from Naruto or me."
Later at one of the many training grounds, the grounds were filled with trees and bushes with a few clearings, a small stream of water passed through the grounds.
When Hinata and Isamu arrived were Naruto already there, Isamu waved at Naruto who waved back "I brought Hinata with me today, if you don't mind" Naruto looked at Hinata, she blushed as she said "he-hello" Naruto smiled and turned his look to Isamu "I don't minded, it's more fun the more we are." Isamu nodded in agreement "okay it's time to start my mission…" Isamu reached into his coat like he was looking for something, he looked on Naruto with a serious look "Umm… Naruto it seem I forgot the training scroll I was going to show you… sorry, but I will have to go home and get it I will return as fast as I can."
Naruto looked a bit disappointed "what is in that scroll anyway…" Isamu smiled as he said "it's a very useful technique, one I'm very sure you would love. Anyway, can you begin training until I return?" Naruto mumbled something about how he was looking forward to train with Isamu "If it can't be helped, come Hinata." Hinata almost yelled in response "y-yes!"
Isamu headed home and yelled back to the two "I will hurry!" as soon he was out of sight he got an evil grin on his face "mission: Shinobi Dating Service begin!" he jumped into the bushes and sneaked his way back to the clearing were Naruto and Hinata was training.
Isamu found a good spot to spy on the two in a bush not too far away, "okay… better hide myself better, Hidden Ninja Art: Hidden among leafs!" He placed two branches with a few leafs in his headband protector "perfect! If Hinata don't use Byakugan then I should be fine… hopefully…" he continued to spy on them for about an hour, in that time Hinata had tried to teach Naruto to control his chakra better, that proved to be quite the challenge.
He sensed that a person was moving towards Hinata and Naruto, "an enemy, Hinata and Naruto most not be interrupted, this is Hinata's chance to get closer to Naruto, this enemy most be neutralized." He moved against the target however it was too far for him to make it in time to stop it from entering the clearing. He was able to see who it was as he got closer, it was Sasuke. "This has to happen silent and quick…" He stopped in a bush near Sasuke's path.
He waited for the right moment as Sasuke had almost passed the bush "Now is my chance!" Sasuke just managed to yell Naruto's name before Isamu pounced him, he held Sasuke over the mouth and an arm around his throat, and he then jumped backward into the bushes again. Sasuke struggled to break free, but the more he tried, the more Isamu tightened his grip, suffocating Sasuke that eventually passed out. Isamu made sure Naruto and Hinata had not noticed anything before moving to the next step, "This is not personal, you were simply the wrong place at the wrong time… now to dispose of the body."
Later at a nearby hot spring resort…
*Splash* Sasuke found himself under water, he got above the surface to breath and get the water out of his eyes "Who the hell did this to me!?" suddenly there were screaming all around him, when he looked around was he surrounded by naked women who were bathing in the spring. One of the girls yelled "Pervert!" Isamu had observed the event from a nearby tree "heh… now he won't have time to look for me… hopefully…" Sasuke had been chased out onto the streets by the angry women, some even rushed into their clothes to hunt him down.
Isamu rushed back to the clearing and to his surprise Hinata and Naruto was just sitting there talking, for about an hour or so Isamu just sat there watching them. However Isamu felt that Naruto was getting a bit inpatient "I've taken this as far as I can… time to join them again" he sneak back to the entrance to the clearing, removed the branches from his head and got back on the road, walking casual against them "Hey! Hinata, Naruto" the two of them turned their gaze at Isamu and Naruto rushed to Isamu "Did you find it? Did you?" a sudden clarification came to Isamu "Shit! Forgot about that blasted scroll… Improvise!" He put his arms over cross and looked Naruto in the eyes
"I sorry but I could not find it all of a sudden, but howabout we spar against each other? How would you like that?" Naruto's face turned to a happy smile "That would be awesome!" He then moved backward to create space. Isamu drew his katana "Naruto, you are allowed to use ninjutsu, just so you don't get surprised when I use it."
Naruto made a clone hand seal "good to know!" Several clones of Naruto appeared all around Isamu, they then started to charge at him, and he closed his eyes, took a deep breath and got in a low stance where he held his katana behind him.
Just as one of the clone jump to attack his head, he opened his eyes and bowed down so the attacker would fly over him and as he passed in the air, he then grabbed him around his angle and he would then swing it into another clone making the both disappear. As he turned to face the other clones, felt a pain in back of his knee and he fell onto his back, Naruto was above him trying to make a drop kick on Isamu. Isamu was unable to move before he got Naruto's drop kick right in the chest.
*Poof* where Isamu had been was now a log in his place, Naruto and his clone stood and looked around in the search of him. Isamu emerged from underneath the ground a good distance away from Naruto that saw him right away and charged right away from the front. Isamu raised his katana and preformed a quick hand seal combo before crashing the katana into the ground with such force that the ground in front of him shattered into the air like something had exploded underneath.
Naruto and his clones where thrown into the air into all directions. "Above! That will not work!" Isamu turned his gaze at Naruto, readying for the attack from above, however to his surprise he noticed someone behind him, completely instinctively he turned around to stop the attack from behind by giving Naruto a slash with the back of his sword. Before he got to turn his attention back to the sky, he received blow to the back of his head, smashing his face into the ground. *Poof* Naruto now stood on top of a log, Naruto sighed "Not again…" Isamu was behind Naruto and in one swift action he grabbed Naruto around the neck "I win Naruto, I caught the real you. I know this is just a clone, but I have let him win, I'm not about to make him look bad in front of Hinata-sama."
The Naruto in Isamu's grab smiled and disappeared in a smoke cloud, clouding Isamu's vision, he however was still able to sense the incoming attack, "this won't hurt too badly… hopefully…" his feet were swept away from underneath him, forcing him on his back, when he collected him after the fall he had an kunai point at his face and Naruto's smiling face behind it, "I win!" Isamu let out a sigh then pushed the kunai away from his face "You win, I yield…" Naruto started screaming and what looked like some kind of victory dance "I did it! Yes!"
He got back on his feet and dusted off his cloths, "Hinata-sama I think we should call it a day for now, I have some things I need to discuss with my sensei." Just as he had finished talking, a kunai with a note on it landed between his feet "What is she up to now… Well… at least I got a free kunai." he picked up the kunai took the note and hid the kunai in his coat, he looked at Hinata and Naruto "I will be taking my leave now Hinata-sama. Naruto could you do me the favor to see too that Hinata-sama come home safely?"
Naruto nodded in response "You can count on me!" Hinata blushed as she bows before Isamu In thanks "Thank you for today Isamu." Isamu made a very brief bow before giving her a response "No need to thank me, and I have told you that you should not bow before me, I'm below such honors." He turned around and head towards the village "oh and by the way, good fight Naruto" Naruto blushed a little "yea it was fun, I really enjoyed it." As he walked away he looked over his shoulder and waved goodbye.
As he walked he read the note he got from his sensei "Isamu we will meet at my favorite hot spring (yes that one!) We need to talk about our next mission, it will be fun. 3" he had stopped walk for a while, he had a displeased look on his face, his eye was twitching "That perverted hag…"
In front of a hot spring with mixed bathing stood Isamu "She won't get me this time… who am I kidding…" he just walked straight in and just as he went past the girl sitting at the counter she recognized him "Isamu-kun here to pick up your sensei again? If so she ordered these dangos, and I can't leave the counter right now, so would you?" He walked to the counter to pick up the dangos "Thanks on her behalf" The girl smiled "thank you very much!" He just walked straight through the men's dressing room and out to the pool area, where he spotted his sensei fairly easily, there she was a young woman with violet hair sitting in the pool with her back to him.
He walked up behind her and put down the dangos next to her "you know there other places to get your dango fix…" she turn her head to look up on him with one eye "I know but no other place can you enjoy them in a hot spring, why don't you join me?" he backed up a little and looked a little nervous "Not today Anko, I would pref-" before he got the chance to react, she grabbed his hand and pulled him in the pool and when he got above the surface again he got a towel smacked on his head and a dango stick stuffed into his mouth.
Isamu removed the dango from his mouth to speak "Damn you, you old hag, every time!" he then felt something sharp poking his side, Anko looked a little pissed to say the least "what did you call me again?" he quickly got an innocent look on his face "Nothing!" and then stuffed a dango in his mouth. The sharp object disappeared from his side and Anko's face looked normal again "Now that we both are conformable, then let's get started" She quickly ate a dango before starting on the mission briefing.
"Well as you might know that the chunin exam is coming up… I will be the examiner for the second exam in the forest of death this year, but ever since your mission near the Kusagakure border our relations with Kusagakure have worsened and as a result Iwagakure are backing them up, not that we think they will actually do anything over such a small event, however Kusagakure have demanded you to be disciplined and demoted to genin… So you have to take the chunin exam again this year"
Isamu looked at Anko with one raised eye brow "Is this some sort of political stunt to avoid war…?" Anko just smiled and avoided to answer his question "You don't have to worry about you being disciplined, since I have already told the Hokage that I "have" done so, and I have already found you a team and signed you up for the exam" Isamu let out a long drawn sigh and then munched one of his dangos.
Anko gave him a tap on the head "Don't be so down about it, there is meaning to the madness, you have a secret mission, that no one can know about. Well… not anything serious, we just want you to keep an eye on the Iwa and Kusa teams and report anything suspicious to me."
The two of them just sat there a little, while eating their dangos, until Isamu broke the silence "I even worked so hard to become chunin… oh well… Are my two team mates any good?" Anko nodded in response "They are good, one is an excellent genjutsu user, and the other is brilliant with ninjutsu, but they are not as good as you." Isamu looked a little skeptical "If they are not better than me, then we won't complete the exam…" Anko sighed, while moving her hand to her face "*sigh* as unconfident as always… I don't understand where you get it from…"
She then stepped up from the pool and walked towards the dressing room "Anyway I'll see you soon, Isamu" Isamu stepped up from the pool as well "That we will… wait… who are my team mates?" Anko just walked while talking "oh that's right I almost forgot, they are told to meet you at your old clan district tomorrow at noon." She then went out of sight as she entered the dressing room. Isamu just sat back while wondering "why that place? It's abandoned, nothing but old homes… there is a reason they call it the ghost district… she's planning something…" he then stepped up from the pool and with his cloths completely drenched, he walked back home dripping the whole way.
When he returned home the first thing he did was changing cloths and hanging the wet up to dry, just as he had finished changing he heard Hinata's voice from outside his door "May I enter?" he proceeded to drying his equipment with a towel before placing them back into his closet "Yes of course you may enter" Hinata entered his room and sat down beside him and helped him, "Thank you" he raised one eyebrow as he looked on Hinata, wondering why she said thanks when she was the one helping him "Thanks for what?"
She answered with a calm tone while looking down on the equipment "For what you did for me this afternoon…" he quickly returned his gaze back down, and a few sweat drops started to run down his face "Damn those eyes of hers! If her father finds out what I have been trying to do… *glurp* I don't know what you are talking about… Keep your cool…" she just smiled and put a piece into the closet and picked a new one.
They did not talk until they were finished drying his equipment, Hinata got up "I will go and help making dinner, anything special you want?" Isamu stood up as well to and started to make a check if he needed restock anything "well… as long it's not dangos then I'm happy… hmm… I'm running low on smoke bombs and explosion tags…" she smiled as she went on her way "I don't think you have any reason to fear dangos for dinner." She then closed the door behind her.
When he had finished making a small list of equipment that needed restocking, he found his father's old tome to study it further "I will need to be better prepared this time, so many things can go wrong… and they will… I have a month, some training of my basic form and endurance would be in order. Ohh! This jutsu looks cool, but I won't be able to learn that in only a month, I would need to master fire first… also I must not forget to improve my sensing, so much to do, so little time." Just as he turned the page Hinata called him "Isamu, dinner is ready!" he closed the tome and hid it back in his closet "I'll be there in a minute. Have it really been that long already? Oh well never mind."
Thanks for Reading.